Some minor imperfections but pure vitality, pure joy with a conductor who was then 92 years old. Luis Sunen writes from La Coruna, Spain: ‘The one that I prefer is that of Pablo Casals in Marlboro in 1969. The Allegretto is made an Adagio, in phrasing if not tempo, but it is mesmerizing. His English accent is a bit like Antonio Pappano’s.Īrthur says: ‘Every bar alive in the first movement. At the end, there is a spoken commentary by the conductor.
This recording is not yet on Idagio, but some discreet hand has uploaded it onto Youtube, where it has received a mere handful of clicks and just one response. We’ll come to these disputations in a few paragraphs’ time, but meanwhile there are more than 100 others to consider and some will open your ears to a different and unexpected approach to Beethoven’s truth.Īrthur Kapitainis in Montreal, for instance, swears by Leopold Stokowski’s fabulous Philadelphians in 1927. All seem to agree that one performance is indispensable and two others are so anthithetical that they can’t both be right. Our expert panel in a dozen different countries has come up with remarkable unanimity in their choice of the three quintessential recordings of this symphony. Seventh symphony, opus 92 (part 3 – previous 2 parts here and here) Welcome to the 80th work in the Slipped Disc/Idagio Beethoven Edition
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